Job summary
Are you an inspirational clinical leader passionate about improving mental health and dementia care for older people? Join our Senior Leadership Team and play a pivotal role in shaping and developing high-quality, safe and person-centred services across community, inpatient and intensive care settings. This is an exciting opportunity to drive service improvement and transformation, provide strategic and clinical leadership, champion innovation, inclusion and co-production, and foster a psychologically safe culture where staff can thrive. Working collaboratively across multidisciplinary teams, you will lead quality and governance initiatives, support workforce development, reduce health inequalities, and make a lasting difference to the lives of older people and their carers across Leeds.

Main duties of the job
Provide strategic and clinical leadership for Older People's Services as part of the leadership triumvirate, ensuring high-quality, safe and effective patient care. Lead clinical governance, quality improvement, risk management, service development and workforce leadership, while promoting service user involvement, managing clinical performance, and ensuring compliance with Trust, professional and regulatory standards.

About us
The Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (LYPFT) is the main provider of Mental Health and Learning Disability services in Leeds. We also provide specialist inpatient services in York and some highly specialised services across the country. As a teaching trust with strong links to local universities, we are a centre of excellence for teaching, research and development.

There are many benefits of working for LYPFT including fantastic employee wellbeing support, 27 - 33 days annual leave, flexible working and remote working arrangements, the NHS Pension Scheme, coaching, support and opportunities for career development and training and education support alongside a range of exclusive discounts and payment schemes including for cars, extra leave days and more NHS Discount Offers.

We also have a bank department, offering variety of roles in nursing, allied health professions, healthcare support worker and administration clerical. Permanent employees are automatically added to bank.

Applicants should be aware that individuals requiring a visa to work in the UK, the Trust only provides sponsorship for registered healthcare practitioner roles (this does not include Healthcare Support Workers). This is an essential requirement, and the Trust is unable to offer you a role if you do not meet Trust requirements for sponsorship and Home Office requirements for a visa.

Job responsibilities
We recruit people based on their values and qualifications (where required) and believe that their lived experience is an advantage, this means that together we are as diverse as the communities we care for. Simply put, when we employ caring people who act with integrity and have the right skills, we can give those with mental health challenges, learning disabilities and neurodiversity high-quality care and support to live fulfilling lives, and make our staff feel purposeful, happy and valued.

All our information is available in accessible formats. Please contact the Recruitment team recruitment.lypft@nhs.net

Attached to this advert is our candidates guide to values-based recruitment and supporting guidance on how to make a successful application.

If you require a reasonable adjustment, please contact the Recruitment Team or see the attached candidate guide to reasonable adjustments.

To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience youll need, look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the Supporting Documents heading.

So that youre even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, youll need to take time to read the Candidate Guide to Values Based Recruitment. This document provides you with information to help you apply.

Qualifications
Essential

• Professional Qualification in health.

Experience
Essential

• Evidence and experience of engaging and involving service users, carers and staff in co-designing and improving services
• Recent clinical experience in working with older people at a senior practitioner level. Evidence and experience of providing high standards of clinical leadership at a senior level.

Knowledge
Essential

• Understanding and experience of developing psychologically safe and collective leadership cultures and learning systems to improve the delivery of high quality, safe, effective and person-centred health care services

Values
Desirable

• Tell us about a time when you spotted something small going wrong and did something to stop it becoming a bigger issue.
• Tell us about a time when you realised a colleague or someone you know needed a bit of support and you offered to help.
• Tell us about a time when you showed someone kindness or understanding.

Skills
Essential

• Car driver essential.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is an equal opportunities employer.